My heart was pounding with excitement and exhaustion. A group of us priests had traveled to Rome with other pilgrims from all over the world to be with the pope.
It caught me off guard when my 8-year-old recently asked: “Dad, doesn’t it get a little weird for you when you think about drinking the blood of Jesus at Mass?”
Edith Stein was born in Poland in 1891 to a devout Jewish family. She gave up practicing the Jewish faith as a teenager and began to pursue a degree in philosophy.
Pilgrims from every corner of the nation gathered to celebrate what they know to their core – that the Eucharist is the source and summit of our Catholic faith.
At every Mass, the once-and-for-all sacrifice of Jesus on the cross – the divine sacrifice which redeems the world – is made present to us in a real but mystical way.